Ok, I know this has been asked before. Not only that, I know I have asked it before. What is the dating convention that Paizo established in the Dungeon adventures and with Living GH? 2001 = 598 or some such. I am trying to tie a dozen or so articles together on a common dating scheme, and I just cant remember.
Really, just about anything from 1998-2001 (except Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, which had its own internal dating issues, and Return of the Eight, which was a prequel set in 585) took place in 591, and things advanced one Greyhawk year for every real year after that until 2007 or 2008.
For reference:
Return of the Eight=9-11 Goodmonth, 585 CY.
1998=591 CY
1999=591 CY
2000=591 CY
2001=591 CY
Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil=594 CY (15 years after T1-4; Monte Cook may have incorrectly assumed T1-4 took place in 576 CY, however, which would have placed Return in 591 like every other Greyhawk thing that year)
2002=592 CY
2003=593 CY
2004=594 CY
2005=595 CY
2006=596 CY
2007=597 CY
2008=598 CY
I think 2008 saw the last adventures of the Living Greyhawk campaign, and there wasn't anything official after that.
IIRC, everything non-Living Greyhawk that was released was supposed to be set in 591 per a post by SRM, I think, at the beginning of LG. I think I've reposted that somewhere here before. I mention this because the hardback Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk takes place in 597, which violates that rule iirc.
IIRC, everything non-Living Greyhawk that was released was supposed to be set in 591 per a post by SRM, I think, at the beginning of LG. I think I've reposted that somewhere here before. I mention this because the hardback Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk takes place in 597, which violates that rule iirc.
Yeah, that might have been Ryan Dancey's intention, but it doesn't seem that anyone honored it. Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil seems to have violated it, perhaps accidentally, and Paizo didn't honor it. By 2007, Dancey was long gone and no one at WotC cared.
It mostly didn't come up, anyway, since most of WotC's 3e and 3.5-era stuff didn't make use of Greyhawk beyond deity names.
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